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42-538: The Picture may refer to: The Picture (Massinger play) , a 1630 play by Philip Massinger The Picture (Ionesco play) , a 1955 play by Eugène Ionesco The Picture (magazine) , a former Australian weekly men's magazine "The Picture" (story) , a short story by Erskine Caldwell, included in the 1933 collection We Are the Living The Pictures , an Australian alternative rock band "The Picture",

84-521: A Gorgon and the Fury Tisiphone – but when Sophia produces the humiliated courtiers Ubaldo and Ricardo from their laborious incarceration, Mathias and the visitors get the point of her behavior. When Sophia asks to be freed of her marriage vows to enter a nunnery, Mathias confesses his error and all appeal to her to forgive him. She acquiesces. Baptista, whom Sophia calls an "enchanter," renounces his "devilish art." The play's conclusion expresses

126-504: A lesson. She convinces both that she will yield to their desires; but when they are undressed and expecting her, both men find themselves imprisoned. They can gain food only by their manual labor, spinning and reeling thread. The clown Hilario dresses himself in their cast-off finery. Honoria reveals that she never intended to violate her marital vows with Mathias; she only wanted to win a victory of pride over Sophia. She intends to confront him while Ladislaus and his courtiers watch – but she

168-402: A miniature portrait of Sophia that will remain clear as long as she is a chaste wife, but will yellow if she is tempted to infidelity, and turn dark if she succumbs to temptation. In the royal court of Hungary, King Ladislaus is a devoted and doting husband to his queen, Honoria – to a degree that earns criticism from his old counsellor Eubulus, who styles the queen as a potential Semiramis and

210-473: A production for Salisbury Theatre, with Olivia Grant and Simon Harrison as the central romantic couple. Mathias is a Bohemian knight who has decided to repair his financial situation by serving in the Hungarian defense against the invading Ottoman Turks . He takes a tender farewell from his wife Sophia, which is somewhat marred by his fears about her fidelity during his absence. The depth of his insecurity

252-607: A song by Editors from the CD single Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with The Picture Picture (disambiguation) Get the Picture (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Picture . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

294-404: A wife: Nell, a hideous kitchen-maid. The Syracusans decide to leave as soon as possible, and Dromio runs off to make travel plans. Antipholus of Syracuse is then confronted by Angelo of Ephesus, a goldsmith, who claims that Antipholus ordered a chain from him. Antipholus is forced to accept the chain, and Angelo says that he will return for payment. Antipholus of Ephesus returns home for dinner and

336-453: Is confounded when the identical Dromio of Ephesus appears almost immediately, denying any knowledge of the money and asking him home to dinner, where his wife is waiting. Antipholus, thinking his servant is making insubordinate jokes, beats Dromio of Ephesus. Dromio of Ephesus returns to his mistress, Adriana, saying that her "husband" refused to come back to his house, and even pretended not to know her. Adriana, concerned that her husband's eye

378-401: Is discovered in the city. He can only escape by paying a fine of a thousand marks. He tells his sad story to Solinus, Duke of Ephesus. In his youth, Aegeon married and had twin sons. On the same day, a poor woman without a job also gave birth to twin boys, and he purchased these as servants to his sons. Soon afterward, the family made a sea voyage and was hit by a tempest. Aegeon lashed himself to

420-417: Is displayed in a conversation with his friend Julio Baptista. Baptista is identified as a "scholar," though in the seventeenth century a scholar's practice could include magic and forms of divination like astrology . It becomes clear that Baptista is this type of scholar, when he informs Mathias that he has "found, / By certain rules of art," that Sophia is as yet a faithful wife. Baptista has also prepared

462-452: Is enraged to find that he is rudely refused entry to his own house by Dromio of Syracuse, who is keeping the gate. He is ready to break down the door, but his friends persuade him not to make a scene. He decides, instead, to dine with a courtesan. Antipholus of Ephesus dispatches Dromio of Ephesus to purchase a rope so that he can beat his wife Adriana for locking him out, then is accosted by Angelo, who tells him "I thought to have ta'en you at

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504-628: Is in crisis as it sheds its feudal forms and confronts the market forces of early modern Europe. Two early performances of The Comedy of Errors are recorded. One, by "a company of base and common fellows", is mentioned in the Gesta Grayorum ("The Deeds of Gray") as having occurred in Gray's Inn Hall on 28 December 1594 during the inn's revels . The second also took place on " Innocents' Day ", but ten years later: 28 December 1604, at Court. Like many of Shakespeare's plays, The Comedy of Errors

546-603: Is insane. Dromio of Ephesus returns to the arrested Antipholus of Ephesus, with the rope. Antipholus is infuriated. Adriana, Luciana, and the Courtesan enter with a conjurer named Pinch, who tries to exorcize the Ephesians, who are bound and taken to Adriana's house. The Syracusans enter, carrying swords, and everybody runs off for fear: believing that they are the Ephesians, out for vengeance after somehow escaping their bonds. Adriana reappears with henchmen, who attempt to bind

588-515: Is known as a warren for witches. Antipholus and Dromio go off with this strange woman, the one to eat dinner and the other to keep the gate. Inside the house, Antipholus of Syracuse discovers that he is very attracted to his "wife's" sister, Luciana, telling her "train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note / To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears." She is flattered by his attention but worried about their moral implications. After she exits, Dromio of Syracuse announces that he has discovered that he has

630-429: Is shocked, and pleads for a night's delay to consider the matter. Honoria sends the jewels and gifts to Sophia in the custody of the licentious courtiers Ricardo and Ubaldo, who have been instructed to seduce her. They convince Sophia that Mathias has been repeatedly unfaithful to her, and that the presents they carry are the cast-offs of his many lovers. Sophia is shocked and hurt by this; and their temptations of her cause

672-484: Is straying, takes this news as confirmation of her suspicions. Antipholus of Syracuse, who complains "I could not speak with Dromio since at first, I sent him from the mart," meets up with Dromio of Syracuse who now denies making a "joke" about Antipholus having a wife. Antipholus begins beating him. Suddenly, Adriana rushes up to Antipholus of Syracuse and begs him not to leave her. The Syracusans cannot but attribute these strange events to witchcraft, remarking that Ephesus

714-588: Is surprised when Mathias turns the tables on her, rejecting her advances before she can reject him. Honoria is humbled by his virtuous speeches, and confesses sending Ricardo and Ubaldo to seduce Sophia. The king, queen, and courtiers travel to Mathias's castle in Bohemia to meet Sophia. She, though warned of their coming, humiliates Mathias by giving them a very cold welcome; it becomes clear that she intends to embarrass her husband in retaliation for his doubts and her mistreatment. The irritated Mathias criticizes her as

756-568: Is switched at birth; one set is raised in an aristocratic, the other in a peasant family, who meet during the French Revolution. The film Big Business (1988) is a modern take on The Comedy of Errors , with female twins instead of male. Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin star in the film as two sets of twins separated at birth, much like the characters in Shakespeare's play. The short film The Complete Walk: The Comedy of Errors

798-790: The Master of the Revels , on 8 June 1629 ; it was acted by the King's Men at both of their theatres, the Globe and the Blackfriars . The play was published in quarto the following year; Massinger dedicated the work to the members of the Inner Temple . The play was popular and highly regarded in its own era; in 1650 Richard Washington wrote an elegy on Massinger in his own copy of the quarto of The Picture. Massinger's sources for his plot were

840-507: The 28th novel in Volume 2 of The Palace of Pleasure ( 1567 ) by William Painter , and an anonymous English translation of The Theatre of Honour and Knighthood ( 1623 ) by André Favyn. The 1630 quarto contains an unusually full cast list of the original King's Men's production of the play: The list is informative on the state of the King's Men company at this period. The veteran Lowin, who

882-455: The French critical standard of judging the quality of a play by its adherence to the classical unities , as specified by Aristotle in the fourth century BC. The Comedy of Errors and The Tempest were the only two of Shakespeare's plays to comply with this standard. Law professor Eric Heinze, however, argues that particularly notable in the play is a series of social relationships, which

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924-615: The Porpentine" and asks to be reimbursed for the chain. He denies ever seeing it and is promptly arrested. As he is being led away, Dromio of Syracuse arrives, whereupon Antipholus dispatches him back to Adriana's house to get money for his bail. After completing this errand, Dromio of Syracuse mistakenly delivers the money to Antipholus of Syracuse. The Courtesan spies Antipholus wearing the gold chain, and says he promised it to her in exchange for her ring. The Syracusans deny this and flee. The Courtesan resolves to tell Adriana that her husband

966-573: The Syracusans. They take sanctuary in a nearby priory, where the Abbess resolutely protects them. Suddenly, the Abbess enters with the Syracusan twins, and everyone begins to understand the confused events of the day. Not only are the two sets of twins reunited, but the Abbess reveals that she is Aegeon’s wife, Emilia. The Duke pardons Aegeon. All exit into the abbey to celebrate the reunification of

1008-572: The centuries following its premiere, the play's title has entered the popular English lexicon as an idiom for "an event or series of events made ridiculous by the number of errors that were made throughout". Set in the Greek city of Ephesus , The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated at birth . Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be

1050-503: The confusion by telling the story of three sets of identical triplets: Bachelors Moe, Larry and Joe; husbands Max, Louie and Jack; and newly-engaged brothers Morris, Luke and Jeff. The triplets can only be distinguished by their choices of neckties, bow ties, or no tie at all. The film Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) starring Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland involves two pairs of twins, one of each of which

1092-593: The family. The play is a modernised adaptation of Menaechmi by Plautus . As William Warner's translation of the classical drama was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 10 June 1594, published in 1595, and dedicated to Lord Hunsdon , the patron of the Lord Chamberlain's Men , it has been supposed that Shakespeare might have seen the translation in manuscript before it

1134-454: The female character of Queen Honoria is written for a supremely beautiful woman; she is more than once described as a " Juno " – which raises questions as to how the boy player Thompson managed the role. An adaptation of The Picture by a Rev. Henry Bate, titled The Magic Picture, was performed at Covent Garden in 1783. It was not a success. In 1835 Alfred de Musset produced his own adaptation, Barberine. In 2010 Philip Wilson directed

1176-507: The home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near- seduction , the arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus, and false accusations of infidelity , theft, madness, and demonic possession . Because a law forbids merchants from Syracuse from entering Ephesus, elderly Syracusan trader Aegeon faces execution when he

1218-461: The king a Ninus who will fall under her domination. Honoria goes out of her way to express her devotion to her husband; but the tone of royal uxoriousness is established. The court is also depicted a sink of lust, in the persons of the "wild courtiers" Ubaldo and Ricardo. The Hungarian forces, under the command of the general Ferdinand, are victorious in battle with the Turks, and Mathias is hailed as

1260-443: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Picture&oldid=1167174164 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Picture (Massinger play) The play was licensed for performance by Sir Henry Herbert ,

1302-584: The main-mast with one son and one servant, and his wife took the other two infants. His wife was rescued by one boat, Aegeon by another. Aegeon never again saw his wife or the children with her. Recently his son Antipholus, now grown, and his son's servant, Dromio, left Syracuse to find their brothers. When Antipholus did not return, Aegeon set out in search of him. The Duke is moved by this story and grants Aegeon one day to pay his fine. That same day, Antipholus arrives in Ephesus, searching for his brother. He sends Dromio to deposit some money at The Centaur, an inn. He

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1344-457: The moral that "married men" should steer a middle course between the extremes of Ladislaus and Mathias, "Neither to dote too much, nor doubt a wife." The play's King Ladislaus evidently refers to King Vladislas II of Hungary , who was also King of Bohemia and who managed to hold off the Ottoman pressures. However, there is otherwise little resemblance to the king in the play (the historical king

1386-616: The picture in Mathias's possession to turn yellow. Seeing this, he decides to respond positively to the queen's advances. When he meets Honoria again, Mathias is passionate rather than hesitant; when the queen advises caution about the king, Mathias dismisses the notion and is ready to brave any consequences of their adultery. Now it is Honoria's turn to hesitate, and to plead for the same one night's delay that she'd given Mathias. In Bohemia, Sophia, though wounded emotionally, takes sanctuary in her sense of virtue, and decides to teach her tempters

1428-789: The process of championing Shakespeare and the Romantics during the Bengal Renaissance . The film Our Relations (1936) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy , was adapted from the W. W. Jacobs story "The Money Box", but there are no twins in the Jacobs story. Our Relations owes its central conceit to The Comedy of Errors. As in the Shakespeare play, the story revolves around the confusion of two pairs of identical twins: one set of Laurel brothers named "Stan" and "Alf", and one set of Hardy brothers named "Oliver" and "Bert". Stan and Oliver think Alf and Bert were killed at sea. As

1470-450: The rather lame comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona ". Stanley Wells also referred to it as the first Shakespeare play "in which mastery of craft is displayed". The play was not a particular favourite on the eighteenth-century stage because it failed to offer the kind of striking roles that actors such as David Garrick could exploit. The play was particularly notable in one respect. In the earlier eighteenth century, some critics followed

1512-479: The story opens, Alf and Bert have just arrived via ship at the same seaport where, unbeknownst to them, their married twin brothers Stan and Oliver live. One nod to the movie's inspiration is a running gag: whenever Stan and Ollie say the same thing at the same time, they immediately perform a childhood ritual that begins: "Shakespeare...Longfellow..." The Three Stooges film A Merry Mix Up (1957) starring Moe Howard , Larry Fine and Joe Besser expands

1554-477: The victory's chief hero. Honoria rewards Mathias with rich gifts of jewels and presents for his wife – though she is also provoked by his deep devotion to Sophia. In her egotism she fancies Sophia as a kind of rival for primacy, and decides to challenge Mathias's commitment to her. Meanwhile, Sophia pines for her absent husband. Honoria delays Mathias's return home, and goes so far as to have him seized and brought to her clandestinely. She offers herself to Mathias; he

1596-642: Was adapted and rewritten extensively, particularly from the 18th century on, with varying reception from audiences. The play has been adapted as a musical several times, frequently by inserting period music into the light comedy. Some musical adaptations include a Victorian musical comedy (Arts Theatre, Cambridge, England, 1951), Brechtian folk opera ( Arts Theatre , London, 1956), and a two-ring circus ( Delacorte Theater , New York, 1967). Fully original musical adaptations include: In India, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar adapted Shakespeare's play in his Bengali novel Bhranti Bilash (1869). Vidyasagar's efforts were part of

1638-622: Was likely the Iago to Richard Burbage 's Othello three decades earlier, was by his early 50s tending toward senior roles. The clown Hilario, played by John Shank, is a thin-man character; the thin man was apparently a standard feature of the King's Men's dramaturgy – in the previous generation of Shakespeare and Burbage, hired man John Sinklo had filled thin-man clown roles like Pinch in The Comedy of Errors and Shadow in Henry IV, Part 2 . And

1680-448: Was married three times, but none of his wives was called Honoria). The Comedy of Errors The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare 's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies , with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play . It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre numerous times worldwide. In

1722-531: Was not published until it appeared in the First Folio in 1623. For centuries, scholars have found little thematic depth in The Comedy of Errors . Harold Bloom , however, wrote that it "reveals Shakespeare's magnificence at the art of comedy", and praised the work as showing "such skill, indeed mastery – in action, incipient character, and stagecraft – that it far outshines the three Henry VI plays and

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1764-481: Was printed – though it is equally possible that he knew the play in the original Latin. The play contains a topical reference to the wars of succession in France , which would fit any date from 1589 to 1595. Charles Whitworth argues that The Comedy of Errors was written "in the latter part of 1594" on the basis of historical records and textual similarities with other plays Shakespeare wrote around this time. The play

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